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 2. A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

 3. A wise man guides his own course of action; The fool follows another's direction, When an old dog barks, the others run, And this for no reason at all.

 4. According to real, exact knowledge, one force, or two forces, can never produce a phenomenon. The presence of a third force is necessary, for it is only with the help of a third force that the first two can produce what may be called a phenomenon, no matter in what sphere.

 5. Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

 6. Action hangs, as it were, "dissolved" in speech, in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow; and precipitates itself therefrom. The kind of speech in a man betokens the kind of action you will get from him.

 7. Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

 8. Action is eloquence.

 9. Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author is. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the greater of these is the doing.

10. Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

11. Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

12. Action is the product of the Qualities inherent in Nature.

13. Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

14. Action without study is fatal. Study without action is futile.

15. Actions are the seed of Fate.

16. Active natures are rarely melancholy.

17. Activity and sadness are incompatible.

18. All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

19. And future deeds crowded round us as the countless stars in the night.

20. As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become?

21. Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt; Nothing's so hard but search will find it out.

22. Be great in act, as you have been in thought.

23. Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

24. But the good deed, through the ages Living in historic pages, Brighter grows and gleams immortal, Unconsumed by moth or rust.

25. Deeds grow into Destiny.

26. Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.

27. Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.

28. Do not do what is already done.

29. Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.

30. Each morning sees some task begun, Each evening sees it close; something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.

31. Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

32. Everything is energy in motion.

33. For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

34. For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.

35. Good actions ennoble us; we are the sons of our own deeds.

36. He who considers too much will perform little.

37. Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

38. How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

39. It is a descending stream of pure activity, which is the dynamic force of the universe.

40. It is not good enough for things to be planned - they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

41. It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

42. It is well to think well; it is divine to act well.

43. Just as a flower, which seems beautiful and has colour but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does mean them not.

44. Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors, which motivate action; the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action.

45. Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

46. Mark this well, ye proud men of action! ye are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

47. Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

48. One should act in consonance with the way of heaven and earth, which is enduring and eternal. The superior man perseveres long in his course, adapts to the times, but remains firm in his direction and correct in his goals.

49. Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

50. Our acts make or mar us; we are the children of our own deeds.

51. Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

52. Our only true course is to let the motive for action be in the action itself, never in its reward; not to be incited by the hope of the result, nor yet indulge a propensity for inertness.

53. Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

54. That deed is not well done of which a man must repent, and the reward of which he receives crying and with a tearful face. No, that deed is well done of which a man does not repent, and the reward of which he receives gladly and cheerfully.

55. The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts. Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

56. The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

57. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action. One, who sees inaction in action, and action in inaction, is intelligent among men.

58. The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

59. The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

60. The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

61. The secret of the magic of life consists in using action in order to attain non-action. One must not wish to leap over everything and penetrate directly.

62. The shortest answer is doing.

63. The source of all actions is the body, for it is by the body that all actions are done. The body is behind all actions, even as the Eternal is behind the body.

64. The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.

65. There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

66. Think like a man of action; act like a man of thought.

67. Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

68. This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

69. This universe is a trinity and this is made of name, form, and action.

70. Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

71. To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.

72. To do a good one without incurring danger is common enough. But it is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds though he risks everything in doing them.

73. To do an evil act is base.

74. To talk goodness is not good. Only to do it is.

75. Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act; - act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead.

76. We have only to change the point of view and the greatest action looks mean.

77. We should not be so taken up in the search for truth; as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

78. We should often be ashamed of our very best actions, if the world only saw the motives, which caused them.

79. Well done is better than well said.

80. What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

81. When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the earth, his spirit into space, the hairs of his head into plants, and his bloo1 and semen are placed in water, what then becomes of this person? What remains is action.Its quality becomes fate. Verily, one becomes good by good action, bad by bad action.

82. When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one good reason for letting it alone.

83. Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.